news update...

long time no write! Since my last entry,

• I had Anna and Amy from KBC visit (over new year's), and Janson (also KBC) came for a week not long after.


• I did a concert at the Adventist Church, which went very well. :)


• Billy has died... (At least momentarily.)


• Elisabet and I celebrated Easter by spending Thursday-Sunday reflecting on Jesus' way to the cross through meditation on scripture / prayer / fasting - and we even went out at 6am Sunday to go to a Church service by the sea, in the snow, watching the sunrise. It was beautiful. What God spoke to me about through those days is summed up in one word, trust.


• God's told me to go to China/Mongolia/Tibet for four weeks in June-July, which I'm very excited about!


• I've almost decided who is going to be my producer...


• Will probably study part time after the summer, either psychology or teaching.

And so through the chaos of planning concerts and trips, working and Billy breaking down I am slowly, and I'm afraid quite reluctantly, learning: "in quietness and trust is your strength". Isaiah 30:15

Christmas 2007

Merry Christmas everyone!

And a happy new year :)

I'm living at home with mum and dad and Natalia and Daniel for a couple of days, which is nice. Then on the 27th Anna and Amy, two friends from England, are coming to visit for a week. We're gonna go skating and skiing and snowboarding - action packed holiday coming up - hope we survive.

More updates next year!

Billy

Just remembered I promised to stick in a photo of Billy, my beloved car. This blue car is not Billy, it's Hilde's car - look she has the same steering wheel lock as moi! We found her car in Oslo, how random is that. So we just had to book her.

Bebbe (to the left) has a saying: "kjøss mæ" (kiss me) - and in the randomness of fate, her saying became me and my housemate's common threat to any mean person's words about our innocent car: you dare say a nasty word about the golden golf and you have no choice but to kiss him behind!

Ok, so here's Billy. (As you can see, Solveig sinned - and had to take the consequences of her actions.)

Welcome in!

Here are two videos for those of you who are too far away to visit... Enjoy :)

new home

This is me and Elisabet in our new flat eating our first dinner together. Fish, rice and vegetables with home-made bread.. mmm!! We're the best cooks ever, you'll just have to invite yourselves round. :)
And here come the pictures from our trip to Rjukan, when we climbed to the top of Gaustad. 1883m. Nice walk with warm waffles and hot chocolate at the top.
(It was a perilous journey.)
Oh, the strength of a woman!
Isn't my mamma beautiful :)

mountains

Wow, I just saw it's 2 months since I last wrote anything here - on the one hand that's long time, but on the other hand it seems so short when I think about all that's happened since I left KBC!

As soon as I got back to Norway we went for a trip to Rjukan, a "cooshley" valley (with hardly any sun) and went for a walk in the Norwegian mountains. Enjoyed this trip much more than my last Norwegian mountain experience, which I felt was overwhelmingly grey. This time it was tiring but refreshing, and the beautiful view I will share with you all once I have my camera and internet at the same time.

Straight after soaking in beautiful Norway again I started work at a nursing home. A lot of hours as well as fighting off a cold meant that I didn't get to catch up with friends for a while.

I was still stuck at home sharing a room with my sister (cooshley, but cramped) when the phone rang and I got an interview at the Adventist primary&secondary school in Sandefjord. I remember hesitating at the staff-room door after getting the job - can I actually just waltz in here without knocking? And the realisation that teachers don't get recess. Hm!

A phrase which God has reminded me of a lot since back in Norway, is "I can climb this mountain with God." Lately though, finding the job's challenges less like mountains and more like hills, I'm finding it easier to trust in myself rather than on God. Just yesterday God took me back to His words to me on my first morning back in Norway; one step at a time. That is; ask God what to do, do that one thing, stop and listen, take the next step, stop and listen, next step... I remember facing the first task of the day; unpacking my suitcase, and feeling so strongly I can't do this without you God!

I know that's what God wants from me this year - to see my utter dependancy on Him and to learn sensitivity to Him in both the business and the boringness of life. Cause it's so refreshing when I do focus on Him and find (again- why do I always "forget"?) that He is the only one who can give me what I need. I can rest in Him! :) And it's so exciting when, by just having my eyes fixed on Him, I see something of His heart for people! Although I still struggle with being obedient...God give me fear of You - love of You - which drives out all fear of man! I know this comes naturally when I rest in who I am in Christ... Thank you Jesus..
Ok I better stop here. I'll update on the flat that me and Elisabeth have moved into and our BEAUTIFUL car, Billy (haha) when I can get some photos on the blog aswell.

Superheroes gather to celebrate Charlotte and Mark

Here follows yet another collection of crazy KBC-goes-mad-dressing-up photos! This is Charlotte, also known as Supergoth, and looking out for her from behind sits captain Legg-Bagg. From the left: Superpunk (Rachael my housemate), Super? (Dan from Indiana), Superchav (Claire) and Superstop (Mike)
And here are Ben and Michelle dressed as Supersaik and Supergypsey (don't you just LOVE the tights - £3 at Primark if anyone's interested)
Super Bee, Lady lips and Big dog enter the scene...
And last but not least (although there were many more great costumes that didn't make it to this blog), Supernerd and Supergeek thoroughly enjoy being in the spotlight.